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Rhiānus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Ῥιανός) of Crete. A distinguished Alexandrian poet and grammarian, who flourished in B.C. 222. Some of his epigrams are present in the Greek Anthology. His remains are edited by Saal (Bonn, 1831)....

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Scopas in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

An Aetolian, who held a leading position among his countrymen at the period of the outbreak of the war with Philip and the Achaeans (B.C. 220). He commanded the Aetolian army in the first year of the war; and he is mentioned again as general of the Aetolians, when the latter people concluded an alliance with the Romans to assist them against Philip...

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Seleucus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

Surnamed Ceraunus (226-223), eldest son and successor of Seleucus II. The surname of Ceraunus ("Thunderbolt") was given him by the soldiery, apparently in derision, as he appears to have been feeble both in mind and body. He was assassinated by two of his officers, after a reign of only three years, and was succeeded by his brother, Antiochus the G...

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Sextus Empiricus in Wikipedia

Sextus Empiricus (c. 160-210 AD), was a physician and philosopher, and has been variously reported to have lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. His philosophical work is the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman skepticism. In his medical work, tradition maintains that he belonged to the "empiric school", as reflected by his ...

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Sappho in Wikipedia

Sappho (pronounced /ˈsæfoʊ/ in English; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω [psapːʰɔː]) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her l...

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Scylax of Caryanda in Wikipedia

Scylax of Caryanda was a renowned Carian explorer and writer of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. Exploration and literary works In about 515 BCE, Scylax was sent by King Darius I of Persia to follow the course of the Indus River and discover where it led.[1] Scylax and his companions set out from city of Caspatyrus in Gandara, in today's Afghanistan...

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Pyrrhus of Epirus in Wikipedia

Pyrrhus or Pyrrhos (Greek: Πύρρος, Pyrros; 319/318 BC-272 BC) was a Greek[1][2][3] general and statesman of the Hellenistic era.[4] He was king of the Greek tribe of Molossians[3], of the royal Aeacid house[5] (from ca. 297 BC), and later he became King of Epirus (306-302, 297-272 BC) and Macedon (288-284, 273-272 BC). He was one of the strongest o...

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Pyrrho in Wikipedia

Pyrrho (ca. 360 BC - ca. 270 BC), a Greek philosopher of classical antiquity, is credited as being the first Skeptic philosopher, and the inspiration for the school known as Pyrrhonism founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC. Life Pyrrho was from Elis, on the Ionian Sea. Diogenes Laertius, quoting from Apollodorus, says that Pyrrho was at fir...

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Seleucus IV Philopator in Wikipedia

Seleucus IV Philopator (Greek: Σέλευκος Δ' Φιλοπάτωρ), ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, reigned from 187 BC to 175 BC over a realm consisting of Syria (now including Cilicia and Judea), Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Nearer Iran (Media and Persia). He was the second son and successor of Antiochus III the Great and Laodice III. The wife of Sele...

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Sextus Empirĭcus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

A physician who was a contemporary of Galen, and lived in the first half of the third century of the Christian era. Two of his works are extant-Πυρρώνιαι Ὑποπτυπώσεις, dealing with the skeptical learning of Pyrrho (q.v.), in three books; and Πρὸς τοὺς Μαθηματικοὺς Ἀντιρρητικοί, in eleven books, against all positive philosophy. The first six books s...

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